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Chin. Phys. B, 2010, Vol. 19(7): 070517    DOI: 10.1088/1674-1056/19/7/070517
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Effect of following strength on pedestrian counter flow

Kuang Hua (邝华)ab, Li Xing-Li (李兴莉)c, Wei Yan-Fang (韦艳芳)ad, Song Tao (宋涛)a, Dai Shi-Qiang (戴世强)a
a Shanghai Institute of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200072, China; b College of Physics and Technology, Guangxi Normal University, Guilin 541004, China; c School of Applied Science, Taiyuan University of Science and Technology, Taiyuan 030024, China; d Department of Physics and Information Science, Yulin Normal University, Yulin 537000, China
Abstract  This paper proposes a modified lattice gas model to simulate pedestrian counter flow by considering the effect of following strength which can lead to appropriate responses to some complicated situations. Periodic and open boundary conditions are adopted respectively. The simulation results show that the presented model can reproduce some essential features of pedestrian counter flows, e.g., the lane formation and segregation effect. The fundamental diagrams show that the complete jamming density is independent of the system size only when the width W and the length L are larger than some critical values respectively, and the larger asymmetrical conditions can better avoid the occurrence of deadlock phenomena. For the mixed pedestrian flow, it can be found that the jamming cluster is mainly caused by those walkers breaking the traffic rules, and the underlying mechanism is analysed. Furthermore, the comparison of simulation results and the experimental data is performed, it is shown that this modified model is reasonable and more realistic to simulate and analyse pedestrian counter flow.
Keywords:  following behaviour      lattice gas model      counter flow  
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PACS:  89.40.Bb (Land transportation)  
  02.50.Cw (Probability theory)  
  05.50.+q (Lattice theory and statistics)  
Fund: Project supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (Grant No. 2006CB705500), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 10962002, 10902076 and 10532060).

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Kuang Hua (邝华), Li Xing-Li (李兴莉), Wei Yan-Fang (韦艳芳), Song Tao (宋涛), Dai Shi-Qiang (戴世强) Effect of following strength on pedestrian counter flow 2010 Chin. Phys. B 19 070517

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